On Wednesday — THE START OF HOCKEY SEASON, WOOOO — the NHL announced opening-night rosters for all 30 teams. You can find them here. Do note that some players who’ve recently agreed to terms, but whose contracts had not yet been approved by the league, are not included.

It’s an attention-grabbing bit of news from the desert, to say the least.

Head coach Dave Tippett will have his work cut out for him this season. Chychrun, Strome, Crouse and Dvorak are all making the leap directly from junior hockey, and there’s bound to be a significant learning curve ahead.

That said, Tippett seems ready for the challenge.

Aside from being regarded as one of the NHL’s best coaches, Tippett gained some valuable experience coaching younger players at the World Cup, where he was on Todd McLellan’s Team North America staff.

“Young or old, you just want good players,” Tippett said following the tourney, per TSN. “And so many of the young players today are very good players.”

The notables? Haydn Fleury, the seventh overall pick in 2014, who was demoted to AHL Charlotte and Trevor Carrick, the 22-year-old that made his NHL debut last season.

A third good young d-man, Roland McKeown, is sticking around — but nobody’s sure for how long. The ‘Canes added a pair of veteran defensemen in recent days (Klas Dahlbeck via waivers, Jakub Nakladal via free agency) and Nakladal’s status is “non-roster” due to immigration issues.

#Canes GM Ron Francis said Dahlbeck will join the team in Winnipeg, while Nakladal is looking more like Vancouver due to immigration.

Fleury, 20, will no doubt be disappointed by today’s development, though it’s hardly a disastrous setback. The ‘Canes have been pretty methodical in bringing him along — Fleury played four full years with WHL Red Deer — and he’s barely spent any time in the American League.

In that light, going to Charlotte is probably a good thing.

Overall, today’s moves still give the ‘Canes a very young, very exciting outlook for the season. We’ve already mentioned the youth on defense, and the forwards aren’t much older: Sebastian Aho, Elias Lindholm, Phil Di Guiseppe, Viktor Rask, Teuvo Teravainen and Martin Frk are all 23 or younger.

(Veteran forward Eric Boulton was placed on IR with a lower-body injury.)

In net, the Isles forged ahead with their three-goalie system: JF Berube, Thomas Greiss and Jaroslav Halak are all still around, and head coach Jack Capuano added some intrigue when he said Halak might not be ready for Thursday’s season opener against the Rangers at MSG.

Florida continues to make depth moves ahead of today’s roster deadline — this afternoon, the Panthers announced they’ve acquired Brody Sutter from Carolina in exchange for Connor Brickley.

Sutter, 25, is a big-bodied winger that’s spent the last few years shuffling between the ‘Canes and their AHL affiliate in Charlotte. The 6-foot-5, 203-pounder has 12 career NHL games on his resume.

Brickley, 24, only made his NHL debut last year but fared reasonably well, scoring five points in 23 contests. He’s also proven to be a pretty effective scorer at the American League level, with 34 goals over the last two campaigns.

“Connor saw his first NHL action last season after scoring 22 goals in the AHL the season before,” ‘Canes GM Ron Francis said in a release. “We look forward to seeing his continued development as his career progresses.”

The 50th overall pick in 2010, Brickley found it tough breaking into Florida’s deep forward group on a regular basis.

As mentioned above, this is the second small-ish deal the Panthers have swung in recent days. Over the weekend, they sent d-man Jonathan Racine to Montreal for Tim Bozon.